Letter: Break-up of the NCC

From
R. N. CAMPBELL

I share Derek Ratcliffe’s misgivings about the future of nature conservation
in Britain if the Nature Conservancy Council is broken up (‘The end of British
nature conservation?’, Forum, 9 September). But, ironically, it was the
southern-based zealots of nature conservation, official and voluntary, who
created the situation that has allowed the break-up to become a possibility,
as far as Scotland is concerned. Their misjudgment (despite local advice)
and their insensitivity to the feelings and emotions of crofters and other
small land- users – the numerous occupiers and users of land of high conservation
interest in the north – aroused the …